perplexed - Story 104630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a fleeting, silent moment: Mrs. Harrison, his biology teacher, had started following him on Facebook. Daniel’s jaw dropped. Facebook? He barely used it anymore. He'd mostly filled it with his old profile from high school.

He had some old pictures, embarrassing tagged photos, and some outdated opinions that he could no longer stand by. He felt a sudden, profound discomfort. He wasn't even sure if he should accept the request.

He pictured her scrolling through his digital life, finding things he’d long forgotten. He felt a sudden, inexplicable sense of dread. He ran a hand through his hair and took a deep breath. His head spun. He had a lot of work to do.

Emotion: perplexed

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.42 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.16

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion perplexed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 perplexed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the perplexed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the perplexed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`🤔`	0.330
`L`	0.300
`🤔`	0.296
`S`	0.273
`que`	0.264

Suppressed:

`மகி`	-0.227
`rest`	-0.222
`ecstatic`	-0.212
`alleviate`	-0.210
`uplifting`	-0.196